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Eating disorders in adolescence: attachment issues from a developmental perspective.
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- Mediators linking insecure attachment to eating symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
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- Parental and Peer Relationships and Their Impact on Symptom Severity in Adolescent Patients With Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- "This is my place of reference": transition from adolescent to adult care in a qualitative study of patients with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Recent Developments in Eating Disorders in Children: A Comprehensive Perspective.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Childhood trauma and disordered eating behaviors in youth: examining individual types, cumulative numbers, and latent patterns.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between peer attachment, and disordered eating behaviours and body dissatisfaction in adolescence: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk of Abnormal Body Mass Index: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The Effects of Parental Food Education on Children's Food Literacy: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Relationship and Learning Motivation.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Processes of change in family therapies for anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative data.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- The Relationship of Parental Personality Disorders with Offspring Eating Disorders at Childhood and Adolescence Age.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Comparison among anorexia nervosa adolescents with or without previous overweight, obese, and healthy adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Relational attitudes in adolescent girls with and without a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa or atypical anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Depression Disorders in Mexican Adolescents: A Predictive Model.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Factors increasing the risk for food addiction in Ecuadorian students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Family, friends, and feelings: the role of relationships to parents and peers and alexithymia in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Failures in Reflective Functioning, Dissociative Experiences, and Eating Disorder: a Study On a Sample of Italian Adolescents.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2022Article
- Risk of eating disorders in a representative sample of Italian adolescents: prevalence and association with self-reported interpersonal factors.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Attachment status is associated with grey matter recovery in adolescent anorexia nervosa: Findings from a longitudinal study.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Binge eating attitudes in community adolescent sample and relationships with interview-assessed attachment representations in girls: a multi-center study from North Italy.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the present article we review findings from an emerging body of research on attachment issues in adolescents with eating disorders from a developmental perspective. Articles for inclusion in this review were identified from PsychINFO (1966-2013), Sciencedirect (1970-2013), Psychindex (1980-2013), and Pubmed (1980-2013). First, we will outline the crucial developmental changes in the attachment system and discuss how they might be related to the early onset of the disease. Then we will report on the major results from attachment studies using self-report and narrative instruments in that age group. Studies with a developmental approach on attachment will be analyzed in more detail. The high incidence of the unresolved attachment pattern in eating disorder samples is striking, especially for patients with anorexia nervosa. Interestingly, this predominance of the unresolved category was also found in their mothers. To date, these transgenerational aspects are still poorly understood and therefore represent an exciting research frontier. Future studies that include larger adolescent samples and provide a more detailed description including symptom severity and comorbidity would contribute to a better understanding of this complex and painful condition.
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